rather than pick out individual stocks to trade, it can often be worthwhile to trade the indices themselves, especially in times of high volatility.

for those so inclined, i attach below charts for FTSE and FTSE 250, though one might equally be tempted to trade Dow or S&P, which is significantly broader in its coverage, or even NASDAQ

for ease of reading, i have attached 1 year and 3 month charts in each instance

LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The following FTSE 100 .FTSE companies will go ex-dividend on Wednesday, after which investors will no longer qualify for the latest dividend payout. According to Reuters calculations at current market prices, the effect of the resulting adjustment to prices by market-makers would take 0.66 points off the index. COMPANY (RIC) DIVIDEND IMPACT (pence) British Land BLND.L 5.536 0.22 Intertek Group ITRK.L 16.000 0.10 Morrison Supermarkets MRW.L 4.030 0.34 Among FTSE 250 .FTMC companies going ex-dividend are: COMPANY (RIC) DIVIDEND (pence) AG Barr BAG.L 3.11 Bodycote BOY.L 4.60 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL FRCL.L 2.20 INVESTMENT TRUST Fisher (James) FSJ.L 7.10 Inmarsat ISA.L 18.68 (U.S. cents) Mercantile Investment Trust MRCM.L 8.00 RIT Capital Partners RCP.L 14.70 DS Smith SMDS.L 6.80

6620 support looks to me like its holding up nicely, looking for a long position.

6635.8 gone long

DOW
not a pretty sight ..... i have highlighted 200 dma

looks like another shitty afternoon in prospect
don't know whether it was mario or the unemployment figures that upset the horse again

ftse 6450 quite possibly coming your way soon
already dipped to 6460 this afternoon

What a crap week ..

bloody hell!
ftse 6450 blown away after hours and dow now down about 105 and not impossible that we could see the next important benchmark of 16600 before a decent rally

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something of a "get out of jail free" day :-)

so will next ftse stop be 6580, or will that be a bit too far too fast?

You SILLY BILLY.

See here.......you SILLY BILLY.........

http://www.charles-stanley.co.uk/traders-bulletin

read that and said no more than i knew already .... it was a good politician's view

with wall street closing with a gain of 208 points i saw that cash ftse was only showing +4
that looked out of balance, so i have taken a small ftse long at 6533.4 on the basis that, at least at the opening bell, it will be up a fair bit more than that

What about the Japs Sun Night?

what about them? ...... market in china is more relevant, but even so, it looked/looks a good bet especially as f/e markets are likely to be solid enough after last night

Are you sure with the Hong Kong probs.

my wallet said yes, and so did the markets yesterday and last night, albeit that they were due a bounce

Cynic sent you a e-mail re- TUNG.